Ravi
Diamond Member
This isn't news. From what I recall, most of these things were reported on. And no, a few leftovers from the first Gulf War do not mean Saddam was any kind of threat to us or had a workable WMD program.Gotta love Wikileaks.
WikiLeaks Show WMD Hunt Continued in Iraq With Surprising Results | Danger Room | Wired.comBy late 2003, even the Bush White Houses staunchest defenders were starting to give up on the idea that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But for years afterward, WikiLeaks newly-released Iraq war documents reveal, U.S. troops continued to find chemical weapons labs, encounter insurgent specialists in toxins, and uncover weapons of mass destruction.
An initial glance at the WikiLeaks war logs doesnt reveal evidence of some massive WMD program by the Saddam Hussein regime the Bush administrations most (in)famous rationale for invading Iraq. But chemical weapons, especially, did not vanish from the Iraqi battlefield. Remnants of Saddams toxic arsenal, largely destroyed after the Gulf War, remained. Jihadists, insurgents and foreign (possibly Iranian) agitators turned to these stockpiles during the Iraq conflict and may have brewed up their own deadly agents.
In August 2004, for instance, American forces surreptitiously purchased what they believed to be containers of liquid sulfur mustard, a toxic blister agent used as a chemical weapon since World War I. The troops tested the liquid, and reported two positive results for blister. The chemical was then triple-sealed and transported to a secure site outside their base.
Three months later, in northern Iraq, U.S. scouts went to look in on a chemical weapons complex. One of the bunkers has been tampered with, they write. The integrity of the seal [around the complex] appears intact, but it seems someone is interesting in trying to get into the bunkers.
Meanwhile, the second battle of Fallujah was raging in Anbar province. In the southeastern corner of the city, American forces came across a house with a chemical lab substances found are similar to ones (in lesser quantities located a previous chemical lab. The following day, theres a call in another part of the city for explosive experts to dispose of a chemical cache.
Nearly three years later, American troops were still finding WMD in the region. An armored Buffalo vehicle unearthed a cache of artillery shells that was covered by sacks and leaves under an Iraqi Community Watch checkpoint. The 155mm rounds are filled with an unknown liquid, and several of which are leaking a black tar-like substance. Initial tests were inconclusive. But later, the rounds tested positive for mustard.
Myabe Bush did lie to us after all, if you call keeping evidence that will exonerate him lying.
It was pretty clear that was the case when we all watched footage of the invasion.